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Your portfolio companies
have a revenue problem
hiding behind a people problem.

You optimized the balance sheet. You upgraded the tech stack. You brought in new leadership. But revenue is still not accelerating at the pace the hold period demands. The gap is not strategy. It is how the sales teams and leaders inside your portfolio companies communicate under pressure every single day.

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Our closing ratio improved from 27% to 60% in a single quarter. Unbelievable results.

Steve L., Chief Revenue Officer

72%

Of B2B deals end in "no" or "no decision." Inside your portfolio companies, that is trapped enterprise value walking out the door every quarter.

87%

Of buyers feel salespeople do not understand their needs. The portco sales team you inherited may have the product, but not the conversation.

<33%

Of salespeople are viewed as trustworthy. In a hold period measured in years, every quarter of underperformance compounds against your exit multiple.

We Know Your World

Portfolio companies face value creation challenges that operational playbooks alone cannot solve.

You have the thesis. You have the operating partners. You have the value creation plan. But the revenue lever inside your portfolio companies depends on something no spreadsheet can fix: how the sales teams and leaders communicate with buyers every day.

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The sales team you inherited is not built for the growth the thesis demands.

Most portfolio company sales teams were built for the founder's era, not the PE growth era. They have institutional knowledge but lack the communication skills to sell into larger accounts, navigate complex buying committees, or close at the velocity your hold period requires. Hiring alone does not fix this. The team you have needs to sell differently, and that starts with how they build trust in every conversation.

72%

Of portco deals end in no decision

87%

Of buyers say sellers miss their needs

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You optimized ops and tech, but communication is still the bottleneck.

The value creation playbook typically starts with financial engineering, operational improvements, and technology upgrades. But the revenue line depends on humans talking to other humans. When the portco's sales team leads with product features instead of understanding, when managers direct instead of coach, and when the culture rewards activity over effectiveness, no CRM upgrade or org chart change will fix the top line.

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The hold period does not give you time for incremental improvement.

Generic sales training programs take 12 to 18 months to show results. You do not have that kind of time. Every quarter of underperformance inside a portfolio company compounds against the exit multiple. You need a program that changes how the sales team communicates in weeks, not years, and produces measurable, documentable results that your operating partners and LPs can see in the next board review.

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Portco leadership defaults to managing metrics, not developing the people who drive them.

The sales leaders inside your portfolio companies are consumed by pipeline reviews, forecast calls, and board prep. The coaching conversation that would actually develop reps and managers into high performers gets replaced by metric inspection. In a PE-backed environment where every basis point of growth matters, the leadership layer needs to be the multiplier, not the scorekeeper.

Trust = Oxytocin

Change Risk = Cortisol

Value Creation

Limbic System First

Decision = Emotion

The Reality

Communication is the fastest lever to accelerate portfolio company value.

PE firms invest heavily in financial engineering, operational improvement, and strategic repositioning. But the revenue acceleration that drives exit multiples depends on one thing: the quality of conversations happening between your portco's sales teams, their leaders, and their buyers.

When those conversations happen under pressure, the brain does not follow the value creation plan. Portco reps default to feature-pitching. Portco managers default to metric-inspecting. And the buyer's brain shuts down. That is not a strategy gap. It is a neuroscience gap that is costing your portfolio real enterprise value.

NeuroSelling® equips your portfolio company sales teams to build trust first, connect the solution to what buyers actually care about, and close at the velocity your hold period demands. NeuroCoaching® gives portco leaders the framework to develop their people through coaching, not pipeline interrogations.

$200M

Year-over-year sales increase documented

25→8%

Employee turnover reduction achieved

30%

Performance lift in a $3B enterprise team

The Neuroscience

Buyers don't choose your portco because of a better pitch deck.
They choose because of trust.

The neuroscience of complex B2B buying decisions applies directly to the value creation challenge inside portfolio companies. When a buyer evaluates your portco's offering, their brain processes trust before it processes the business case.

If the portco's sales team leads with product features, competitive comparisons, or pricing, the buyer's brain stays in analytical evaluation mode, the same mode that defaults to "no decision." NeuroSelling® shifts the brain's chemistry first, then connects the solution in a way that actually drives the buying decision your portco needs to hit plan.

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"NeuroSelling® is a game changer. Our closing ratio improved from 27% for the first 3 quarters to 60% the following quarter. Needless to say, unbelievable results."

Steve L.Chief Revenue Officer

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Green Light

Oxytocin + Dopamine
Trust → Decision to act

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Red Light

Adrenaline + Cortisol
Threat → No decision

Portfolio Company Solutions

Programs deployed at the portco level, designed for PE-speed value creation.

Every program is built on the same neuroscience foundation and designed to produce measurable, documentable results within the timeframe your hold period and operating partners require.

Portco Sales Teams

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NeuroSelling®

Deploy across your portfolio company's sales team to transform how reps build trust with buyers, communicate value instead of features, and close at the velocity the growth thesis demands. Applicable across any industry vertical your portfolio covers: SaaS, manufacturing, services, healthcare, financial services, or industrial.

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Portco Leadership

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NeuroCoaching®

Give the sales leaders inside your portfolio companies a coaching framework that develops their people instead of inspecting their pipeline. Transform the leadership layer from scorekeepers into multipliers, driving the cultural shift that sustains revenue acceleration beyond the initial engagement.

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AI-Powered

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AI Roleplay & Coaching Platform

Give portco sales teams unlimited practice with AI-simulated buyer conversations tailored to their specific market: discovery calls, executive presentations, competitive displacement, pricing negotiations, and expansion conversations. Scalable across multiple portfolio companies simultaneously. Real-time feedback, available 24/7.

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Targeted Sessions

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MasterClasses

A targeted, high-impact session built around one specific challenge a portfolio company is facing. Whether it is accelerating pipeline velocity post-acquisition, reducing "no decision" losses, aligning a newly merged sales force, or rapidly onboarding new sales hires, a MasterClass delivers measurable impact in days, not months.

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Measured Results

We back every engagement with a performance guarantee.

These are not projected outcomes. These are documented results from organizations that deployed NeuroSelling® and NeuroCoaching® at scale. Results your operating partners and LPs can see in the next board review.

$200M

Year-Over-Year Sales Increase

A mature brand with plateauing sales went from flat to a $200M increase after deploying NeuroSelling® across their team. The change was in how their people led conversations, not in the product or the market.

25→8%

Turnover Reduction

An organization reduced employee turnover from 25% to 8% by transforming how their leaders coached and developed their teams through NeuroCoaching®. In a PE context, that is institutional knowledge and pipeline continuity preserved.

30%

Performance Increase

A $3B enterprise sales team lifted performance 30% by equipping their people and leaders to communicate under the pressure of complex, high-stakes conversations. That is the kind of lift that moves EBITDA and exit multiples.

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The Braintrust Performance Guarantee

We are so confident in measurable outcomes that we back every engagement with a performance guarantee. If your portfolio company's team does not demonstrate documented improvement in communication effectiveness, we work at no additional cost until they do.

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Every quarter your portco underperforms is enterprise value left on the table. Let's fix the conversation.

Talk to a Braintrust specialist about how NeuroSelling® and NeuroCoaching® can accelerate revenue inside your portfolio companies.

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Your portfolio companies have a revenue problem hiding behind a people problem.